With deep reverence
to
Milan Kundera
(a Czech Intellectual, now living in Paris)
whose priceless words in
The Book of Laughter and Forgetting
are ringing :
The first step in liquidating a people is to erase its memory, Destroy its books, its history. Then have somebody write new works manufacture a new culture, invent a new history. [This is already being done.] Before long that nation will begin to forget what it is and what is was… The struggle of man against power is the struggle of memory against forgetting.
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Because of stupid leadership, the Sikh people are passing through that phase.
-Author